“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

George S. Patton

May Online

Read individual feature articles from the May issue. To read all the regular features such as Head-to- head, Famous figures in military history, Forged in battle, Battlefield, this month in military history, and game, movie and book reviews, open the full magazine on the left.

Top Ten World War II Fighter Aces

Seeing as how the Top Ten fighter aces of World War II were all German (as were the next 110 aces), we decided to look at the Top Ten Aces by country.

There are no fewer than 314 Patron Saints. Every continent, country, place, occupation, ailment, illness, and danger has a patron saint to call its own. And the military is no exception. Special thanks to Paul J. Els for help with the research.